Category Archive for : ‘SOUTH CAROLINA’

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GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCIV) – Seven people have been arrested and 21 more will face charges after a “first of its kind” undercover child sex crimes sting involving Goose Creek Police partnering with other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
“I’m proud we were able to pull everything together,” said Goose Creek Police Chief L.J. Roscoe. “This is something I wanted to do when I came to Goose Creek.”
Dubbed “Operation Caught in the Creek,” the initiative used technology to track down several child sex crime

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CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) – A Chesterfield County parent says she did some “mom investigating” to discover that a fifth grade teacher is in jail after being charged in another county with sex crimes against a minor.

Ashley Cimburke says she received a letter on Friday that Richard O’Brien would be out for an extended time at Reams Elementary School.

Cimburke then discovered that O’Brien was facing the charge of proposing a sex act by a communication device to a child under 15 in King and Queen County.

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A South Carolina woman who was sexually assaulted over the summer severed off her assailant’s penis in an effort to stop the attack and get away, according to officials.
Dennis Slaton, a 61-year-old registered sex offender, is accused of picking up a woman at a gas station in Greenville. The victim told investigators she was meeting someone she had been talking to online, and got into Slaton’s truck on Aug. 8.

Once she was in the truck, the woman said “something did not seem right” so she gave

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Robert Mills Thomas, a 45 year old man from Batesburg, South Carolina, pleaded guilty yesterday in US District Court on charges of using the internet to attempt to entice a child to engage in sexual activity and traveling across state lines to engage in sexual conduct with a child. He was actually talking to an undercover agent of the FBI through an internet chat room when he expressed his desire to travel to Georgia from South Carolina to engage in sexual activity with an 11 year old girl.

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Police from Michigan, New Jersey, and South Carolina along with agents from the FDA raided the home of and arrested Jeffrey Suggs, 33 and Kenneth Suggs, 29 for allegedly peddling date-rape drug kits on their web site. The kits were disguised as computer-cleaning solvents. More than 100 pounds of drugs used to make gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), a notorious date-rape drug were seized. Also seized by police were a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a pair of shotguns. The Suggs are awaiting extradition to New Jersey where they face charges of conspiring

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